What's Your Number Review

What's Your number has recently made it into my top 10 favourite movies; mostly for the reason that Chris Evan looks gorgeous in it!

Anna Faris plays the role of Ally Darling  who has recently lost her job and her boyfriend. 

Her last guy was a self-centred, veggie, cycling eco-freak; but her mother (Blythe Danner) thought he was an improvement on most of her boyfriends. 

Ally has had sex with 19 men, though not at the same time (that would make for one awkward morning), and reads an article in Marie Claire that dooms any woman with 20 lovers or more to old cat ladyhood.

This throws Ally into despair, because she believes everything she reads in women’s magazines. Doesn’t everyone?

This is the first of several clues as to why Ally can’t hold down a job or a boyfriend. She’s dim. 

But seeing Donald, a grossly obese man she once 'dated' who’s lost weight, gives her a second idea to hold in her mind. ‘Donald can’t be my only ex who’s got better with time,’ she tells her sister. 

So she gets the hunky, super-hot greek god from the neighbouring apartment (Chris Evans) to track down all her old exes.

If you haven’t worked out by now that the hunk is the one for her (like all rom-coms), even though he doesn’t have pompous intellectual circles as a character, then you really are not getting out enough. 

                                                                    ^see he is yummy

But first, of course, we have to go through all her former boyfriends. These include an Englishman (Martin Freeman), a weird puppet guy, the lovely jake adams and her former boss.

On re-encountering her Englishman ex, she is so eager to please him that she transforms her own accent into a curious combination of Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins and Borat.

The script is by two women, Gabrielle Allan and Jennifer Crittenden, and based on a novel by a third, Karyn Bosnak, so it’s disappointing that it subscribes to the notion that an irresponsible man with a history of one-night stands is ideal husband material, whereas a woman who has slept with 20 can expect to be regarded as an unmarriageable whore. 

But at least, this Hollywood comedy doesn’t make us watch and listen as Ally goes to the toilet, although that is the one thing they are missing - who doesn't love a bit of actors fake peeing? Other saving graces include the fact that Faris is funny, sympathetic and a commendably enthusiastic clown. 

No one would guess from this movie that Faris has also been in films as bad as The Hot Chick and Just Friends as this film is comedy gold. 

If ever she gets to 20 her future is in spinsterhood hence why Ally is looking for the best ex of her life to avoid said place. 

The sexual innuendos and remarks in this film made me laugh at least ten times, and Faris succeeds in making one of the dumbest heroines of the year but it is adorable. 

So I give it 4.5 stars and I recommend you to give it a watch.